Great Opportunity to Steal Game 4

[TA9]

I feel that Washington has an easier time scoring the basketball than we do. I'm afraid that it's going to be an ugly game 4 if they put 3 defenders on Isaiah again as he's our most important player on the offensive side of the court.

[Celtics4ever]

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I feel that Washington has an easier time scoring the basketball than we do

I think on paper they have the most talent.   They wanted this one more, and we let our killer instinct lapse.   They played at a level of physicallity that we did not match last night.   We were bullied and we took it without fighting back.   We get beat on the boards, lost the 50/50 balls it is clear they had their backs to wall and did not want to get swept.   We have to find a way to bounce back.

[Ilikesports17]

Marcus Smart, Avery Bradley, Isaiah Thomas and Jae Crowder all played terribly.

One  of the worst performances I've seen from Marcus, AB has the hip thing so I'll give him a bit of a pass, Jae's act of terrible jumpers is getting old and Isaiah just wasn't right.

Now a lot of that had to do with Washington making those guys play badly, but a lot of it was also just 4 of our 5 most important guys failing to show up. Easy recipe to get blown out.

We saw that in game 2 against Chicago.

The Nets could have beaten us tonight. I don't see it happening again this series.

[bopna]

Marcus Smart, Avery Bradley, Isaiah Thomas and Jae Crowder all played terribly.

One  of the worst performances I've seen from Marcus, AB has the hip thing so I'll give him a bit of a pass, Jae's act of terrible jumpers is getting old and Isaiah just wasn't right.

Now a lot of that had to do with Washington making those guys play badly, but a lot of it was also just 4 of our 5 most important guys failing to show up. Easy recipe to get blown out.

We saw that in game 2 against Chicago.

The Nets could have beaten us tonight. I don't see it happening again this series.

I can.
We can go on daydreamin mode for a couple of games . Also we play awful on 2 days rest so I can easily see this team lose another one in DC then regroup in Boston.

[Surferdad]

Huge CBS supporter, but you've got to admit that Brooks is outcoaching him right now. Why did Brad go back to Green starting?  Didn't he remember he had to pull him quickly in favor of Amir in Game 2?  At the time, it was the right adjustment and I assumed Amir would stay in the starting lineup.

Everyone must be better, including Brad.

[celticinorlando]

Sooner or later Boston has to have a decisive win in this series. No comeback...not being blown out. They need to control the game and win.

I still say Game 5 is the big one. It will either be a close out game at home or a game to take a 3-2 lead.

Getting Sunday would be a mental boost. Wiz have life. Celtics are embarrassed. Will be the best game of the series IMO

[hpantazo]

I wasn't able to watch game 4. What happened? How did we lose so badly? The box score suggests their backcourt totally outplayed our backcourt. Is that true? Did the Wizards make adjustments or did we just not show up?

[droopdog7]

Let's face it.  Wash is a better team.  Through the grace of God and home court, we squeeze out games 1 and 2.  Knew we'd get blitz last night and expect the same thing Sunday.  So no, getting punked last night does not give us a great opportunity to steal game 4.  It tells us we better win at home because a road game in this series is pretty much out of reach.

[KGBirdBias]

Relax people...no one thought we'd sweep this team.

Just stop those big runs and stop making silly turnovers. No matter what happens the Wiz have to win 4 out of 5 and win on the road. I always thought it would go 7.

I don't know what's going on in the first quarter but Stevens needs to fix it.

[wdleehi]

Celtics need a big bounce back.   And they are definitely capable of doing it. 

[Somebody]

We need to do something about Brandon Jennings, Rozier is getting punked by him. We need to put Smart on him to shut him up or hit him with some hard screens; his behavior is getting into our guys' heads and we need to stop that.

[KGBirdBias]

I think Stevens remedy for triple teaming IT is for the team to get back to moving the ball. If the ball is moving they can't get back to their men quick enough. They are shadowing him and then having another man come and help. Move the ball and it will find the open man.

[Somebody]

I think Stevens remedy for triple teaming IT is for the team to get back to moving the ball. If the ball is moving they can't get back to their men quick enough. They are shadowing him and then having another man come and help. Move the ball and it will find the open man.

TP? Btw any ideas to cope with Jennings and others' dirty play?